Myth & Religion in Rome Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• lararium : household shrine to worship household gods called the lares
• cornucopia : object created from achelous' horn after he lost a fight to hercules
• nessus : centaur who tried to abduct deianira from hercules
• cella : roman name for the central room of a temple, housing the cult statue
• pantheon : temple for all the gods built on the campus martius outside rome
• pontifex : most important type of roman priest, meaning "bridge builder"
• mola salsa : salted flour used in sacrifices, made by vestal virgins
• penates : sacred objects dedicated to household gods, which aeneas carried from troy to italy
• lavinia : daughter of king latinus, who married aeneas after he reached italy
• amulius : great-uncle of romulus and remus who tried to have them killed
• faustulus : herdsman who found romulus and remus in the wolf cave
• augury : process used by romulus and remus to decide where to build a city
• lupercus : fertility god honoured in the lupercalia
• whips : objects made from the skin of animals sacrificed during lupercalia
• gambling : ability which was not permitted in public, except at saturnalia
• pileus : felt cap worn by freedman, which all men wore during saturnalia
• eulogy : speech to celebrate the dead at the funeral of an important person
• sarcophagus : decorated stone coffin popular with romans
• wax : material used to make funerary masks
• parentalia : roman festival to honour dead ancestors
• lemuria : roman festival to ward off evil spirits
• ovid : poet who wrote about orpheus and eurydice, and also hercules
• venus : goddess who was thought to be an ancestor of augustus
• standards : object recovered from parthia, as shown on the prima porta statue
• mausoleum : tomb of augustus built on the campus martius